On Thursday October 28, 3 pm GMT (8 am Pacific, 11 am Eastern, 5 pm CET, 11 pm Beijing) Talkstandards.com is hosting an online open forum to discuss mobile payment and transfer services.
Structure:
Discussion material for the event will be posted here including keynote contributions, a featured interview and background material. This will lay the foundation and help focus the discussion’s direction.
The discussion itself will take place at this page: www.talkstandards.com/questions-for-mobile-money-event
Some key questions to be addressed include:
1. What possibilities does Mobile Money offer to unbanked people?
2. Are international interoperability standards required and, if so, how are they best developed?
3. With a great potential for innovations coming from developing countries, how will these innovations find their way into globally accepted standards?
4. What obstacles need to be overcome before we see wider deployments of Mobile Money services?
I welcome you to join the discussion!
Mattias Ganslandt, Editor
Banner image from Wikimedia Commons by user Matthias
Mobile Money – Innovation and Standardization for the Unbanked
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Questions for Mobile Money Event
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comment by Zhao Ping
Telecom exchanges information. Finance exchanges money. In our information society, money is a kind of information, especially the virtual money ...
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comment by Jamie Clark
Replying belatedly to Peter: One might be concerned that the respective stakeholders of the two systems are not ...
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comment by Peter Gray
Mattias, what would an appropriate strategy be for this international coordination?
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comment by Peter Gray
Harold, It's interesting to get you take from the service side perspective. Could you elaborate upon the security of mobile money ...
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comment by Peter Gray
Ajit, the mobile money space is definitely an exciting and interesting one. You comment that: - "One would argue that ...
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